Cabinet and safe.



Nu. 637,l68. Patented Nov. l4, I899.

D. N; SHOEIAKER. CABINET AND SAFE.

' (Application filed Kay 1, 1899.)

(No Model.)

INVENTOI? A TTOHNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OrrrcE DANIEL N. SHOEMAKER, OF OAINESVILLE, MISSOURI.

CABINET AND SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,168, dated November 14, 1899.

' Application filed Mayl, 1899. Serial No. 715,213. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL N. SHOEMAKER, of Cainesville, in the county of Harrison and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Cabinet and Safe, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a cabinet especially designed to provide separate storage-compartments for all materials used in baking and likewise a safe adapted to receive the bread or cake when baked, the safe being so constructed that it may be ventilated or tightly closed, as desired.

A further object of the invention is to provide the cabinet with a kneading-board which when used will not extend unduly beyond the outer face of the cabinet, and, furthermore, to provide bins of simple yet'durable and handy construction and means forlocking the bins with their tops uppermost and for turning the bins bottom upward for the purpose of cleaning or thoroughlyemptying them.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of v, the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures. Figure l is a perspective View of the improved cabinet; and Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one of the bins, illustrating the manner in which it is supported.

A represents the body portion of the cabinet, which is arranged to support asafe B and a case 0, the latter being provided with one or more drawers 10, adapted to contain knives or small articles of any description, and upon the said case 0, Where it connects with the safe, an upright back board 11 is erected, and said back board is attached to a shelf 12, which shelf has bearing against the side of the safe B, and the outer corner of the shelf is supported by astandard 13. The shelf 12 is adapted to receive a lamp, and the space 14 beneath the shelf is-intended to be occupied by a water-pitcher.

The safe B is provided at the front with a door 15, and the said door is provided with an opening 16, covered at the inner face of the door by a screen 17, and the opening 16 may be entirely closed by an auxiliary door 18. The safe maycontain any desired number of shelves or compartments, and the screened opening 16 and auxiliary door 18 are provided to admit of the escape of steam when afreshlybaked loaf of cake is placed in the safe. After the loaf of cake has become cool the auxiliary door 18 is tightly closed.

A draw-shelf 19 is located in the top of the body A below the safe B, and when this shelf is drawn out various articles may be supported thereby, and said shelf may be utilized for the purpose of slicing bread or cake, if desired. A kneading-board 20 is likewise held to slide in the upper portion of the body A, and when the kneading-board is in its normal position within the body A about half of its upper surface may be exposed by opening a hinged section 21 of the top 22 of the body, and by reason of the hinged section of the top the kneadingboa'rd 20 need not be drawn out from the body as far as is ordinarily required when said kneading-board is in use.

' The body A below the kneading-board is usually divided into three compartments, tWo end compartments D and an intermediate compartment D. This intermediate compartment is normally closed by a door 24. of any approved construction, and the compartment D is provided with shelves 23, arranged for the convenient storage of various articles needed in baking.

A bin E is located in each end compartment D, and each bin E is attached to the door 25 of the compartment to which it belongs. Each bin and its attached door are supported upon an upright bar 26, the said bar being connected by hinges 27 to the framing of the compartment to which the bin and door appertain, as shown particularly in Fig. 2. The bins normally bear against an inner side face of the supporting-bars 26, the outer face of the door being flush with the outer surface of the bar, and each bin is provided with a horizontal spur or pin 28 at its top, and these spurs or pins are adapted to enter recesses or slots in the top portion of the supportingbars 26, as shown in Fig. 2, the spurs 28 serving to hold the bin stationarily attached to the supporting-bars. Each bin is provided with a pin 29 at a point slightly above its center, and these pins 29 pass through longitudi= nal slots 30, made in the supporting-bars 26 for the bins, as shown particularly in Fig. 2,

each bin being provided with a suitable head or a nut, and beneath each pin 29 in each supporting-bar 26 a lever 31 is fulcrumed, which levers when depressed will raise the bins an inch or more and carry the spurs 28 of the bins from out of engagement with the supporting-bars 26, whereupon the bins will turn upside down and may be emptied of all their contents or may be made perfectly clean.

It will be observed that the entire construction of the cabinet is such as to place everything needed for baking purposes near at hand to the baker, yet each and every article may be kept separate and safely stored.

It will be understood, further, that the bin may be mounted in the manner illustrated in any casing or any compartment and that, if desired, the bin maybe made of glass or may have a transparent pane introduced in order to display its contents whenever it is so desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A cabinet or case, a support mounted to swing upon the cabinet or case, a bin carried on the support and swinging into the case, a sliding fulcrum for the bin, the fulcrum being mounted 011 the support and a locking connection between the support and the bin, controlled by the movement of the sliding fulcrum.

2. A cabinet or case, a support mounted to swing upon the cabinet or case having a recess therein, a bin in the case, a pivot-pin for the bin and mounted to slide in said support, a lever also mounted in the support and ar ranged for engagement with the said pivotpin, and a locking-spur projected from the upper portion of the bin, and adapted to en ter and leave the recess in the said support; according to the direction in which the said lever is manipulated.

3. The combination, with the body ofa cabinet provided With a series of compartments, doors for said compartments, bins secured to said doors, and supports having hinged connection with the framing of said compartments, of pivot-pins attached to said bins, mounted to slide in said supports, a locking connection between the bins and the supports, and means for raising the pivot-pins, enabling the bins to be turned end for end While connected with their supports, as described.

4:. In a cabinet,the combination with abody, of a support mounted to swing thereon, and a bin pivoted on the support, the pivot of the bin being slidable independently of the support, and means for holding the bin from tilting on the support, such means being disen gaged as the bin with its pivot is slid on its support, whereby to dump the bin.

DANIEL N. SI-IOEMAKER.

WVitnesses:

J. H. FARLEY, M. A. CLAY. 

